སྙིང་རྗེ

Tibetan

Etymology

From སྙིང (snying, “mind, heart”) +‎ རྗེ (rje, “lord”); compare the semantic development of Chinese 仁 (rén).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zȵiŋ.rd͡ʑe/
Lhasa: /ȵiŋ˥˥.t͡ɕeˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*zȵiŋ.rd͡ʑe/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nying^f-je
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵiŋ˥˥.t͡ɕeˑ/

Noun

སྙིང་རྗེ • (snying rje)

“compassion”
Plain	སྙིང་རྗེ (snying rje)
Honorific	ཐུགས་རྗེ (thugs rje)

(honorific) compassion, favour, generosity, mercy
(honorific, Buddhism) compassion, karuṇā

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